Yoshiki visited the
Chinese province of
Sichuan for a few days, he arrived there on 29th and went back to Japan on the 31st (of March). He visited a school in the area of the
earthquake that took place in
May, last year, killing almost 70,000 people.
He also gave an interview to
sina.com, the biggest
infotainment web portal in China. Here is a summary of the interview (by me, please do not copy+paste anywhere without crediting):
He talks about the Yoshiki Foundation, a charity foundation he founded (or wants to found, I didn't quite get that), a few of his past experiences with donating, like for orphans in Hong Kong, when he was there with X Japan in January and also for the Kobe earthquake in 1995 with X Japan. Also about his experiences visiting the earthquake site in Sichuan.
Then says that they haven't decided to place to preform in China in terms of the place. He says the management is working on it and if the concert happens, it's going to be amazing. (When they ask him what he wants to see in China, I imagine) he tells them that he wants to see pandas as he's a huge panda fan. He also says he saw the Olympics and it was amazing.
He carries on saying that he was surprised about the fans this time at the airport as they hadn't announced anything, so he wasn't prepared- hair all messy and stuff.
He says the Hong Kong concerts were the best they ever had and that they are in the best shape ever, even though hide isn't with them any more (in the way that he can't play the guitar live... as he's dead).
Lastly (they probably ask how long they want to keep on preforming), he says that until there are fans, they want to do as much as they can. Also, they are recording a few new songs at this point and they'll release the X Japan Best Of album with three or four new songs. To the question 'when will this album come out', he answers with 'I would say, no later than this upcoming summer'.
You can see the interview here (in English with Chinese dub):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkXGXWyUOKY[/youtube]
Two videos of him in the Chengdu airport:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywOqgE2JbE[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-LlNJL8Whs[/youtube]
Yoshiki visiting a school in the earthquake area:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bag4PDLJmDI[/youtube]
Pictures:
Sources:
Sina.com (the interview, visiting the school video and photos)
Baidu.com (the airport videos)
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« Last Edit: March 31, 2009, 09:12:12 PM by Hypno »
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